Robert

“Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.”
― Philip Slater

“The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.”
― Bill Holm, The Windows of Brimnes: An American in Iceland

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon